October 23rd, 2009 by Bruce

Having a website constructed can turn into a costly project that may or may not be sensible in terms of effort and costs. Before you embark on the project, and even before you pick a web designer think about your company and what it essentially wants to accomplish from a website. Once you have some answers to this question it will give you a good idea what kind of designer (if any) you could do with and a basic overview with which to get going.

Do you merelt want to have your business particulars listed on the internet so that clients who already know about you can find basic information such as your email address or your opening times? If this is all you really need, because your business is say for example a hairdressers shop on a high street you will probably find that your requirements are already dealt with by the many business directories that are now on the web.

Do you need to provide a service for existing clients, providing them with information, backing and service once they have already located you via another path. In this case your site may well need to be technically very well built, easy to revise but will require no Online Marketing to promote it to the search engines.

You may like to sell goods online, having a product which can be bought without been seen as it is standard, for example dvds or cds. If this is the case then outlay on a website that can cope quickly and easily with payments is vital, the site will need to have a good Search Engine Placement so that a huge number of searchers are alerted to the products but the detail of the objects themselves may be small.

If your product is a niche one, for example say you dealt in antique silver letter openers, you may find that there is very little need for any search engine promotion as there are so few competitors for your items on line. You may find that you therefore achieve a good enough Search Engine Placement position without paying out for the services of a SEO Company. People looking for these niche items are ready to browse through a few more search engine results pages than they would for a commodity. However if you expect to get sales from the site you will have to think very carefully about how you display information about your goods, you will probably need access to a designer who offers a cost effective ongoing service to keep the items updated and also a decent photographer as images will be crucial.

Try to think about which of these examples would best match your company and then choose your designer on that basis, if you still need one!

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